Every category where a model named Coderbyte for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Technical hiring assessments	Talent acquisition	13%	3 of 52	8%	13	accepted challenger
Candidate assessment	Talent acquisition	0%	38 of 101	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by TestGorilla at 68%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Coderbyte yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Coderbyte across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	0	0	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	1	0	0	2
Perplexity Sonar	1	1	0	0	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	1	0	0	2
Mistral Small	0	1	0	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	1	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	0	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	1	1
Kimi K2	0	1	0	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	0	0	1

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct11 labels1

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative5 labels2not counted in share

Budget-constrained19 labels12

Scale-constrained5 labelsNone

Negative7 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative48 labels in all, every segment counted; 13 of the 15 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“the best fit is usually Coderbyte or TestDome, with Coderbyte having the strongest support in the results as a cost-effective option” Perplexity Sonar · Technical hiring assessm · budget prompt · first choice

“Coderbyte stands out as one of the best coding assessment platforms due to its affordable entry-level pricing” Grok 4.1 Fast · Technical hiring assessm · budget prompt · first choice

“CoderByte offers all-inclusive pricing and is affordable if you're hiring on a budget” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Technical hiring assessm · budget prompt · first choice

“Coderbyte if you need more regular assessments (flexible pricing with free trial)” MiniMax M2.5 · Technical hiring assessm · budget prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Coderbyte has a mixed reputation. While it is widely used, it suffers from specific reliability and validity issues” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Technical hiring assessm · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Coderbyte, over the 48 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Coderbyte was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

HackerRank36 of 485Compare →

TestGorilla26 of 489Not in the top three

Codility26 of 481Not in the top three

CodeSignal25 of 482Not in the top three

TestDome20 of 484Not in the top three

CoderPad20 of 483Compare →

Playcode7 of 480Not in the top three

Criteria Corp5 of 481Not in the top three

Adaface5 of 480Not in the top three

CodeSubmit4 of 481Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Coderbyte. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 39 of the 48 answers that named Coderbyte and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

selectsoftwarereviews.com33

hackerrank.com29

codesubmit.io28

goodfit.so22

testgorilla.com20

codesignal.com19

testlify.com19

testtrick.com16

g2.com15

interviewcost.com15

216 of the 216 domain citations in answers naming Coderbyte came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

selectsoftwarereviews.com/buyer-guide/online-coding-interview-tools33

codesubmit.io/blog/coding-assessment-tools-202422

goodfit.so/guides/best-coding-assessment-platforms22

hackerrank.com/writing/best-coding-assessment-tools22

testgorilla.com/blog/coding-assessment-tools16

codesignal.com/blog/5-coding-assessment-platforms-for-your-technical-hiring14

interviewcost.com/coding-assessment-cost13

codesubmit.io/blog/coding-assessment-tools12

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Coderbyte

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Coderbyte; a claim can dispute any of them.

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